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Wikipedia =George Mason University (GMU, Mason, or George Mason) is a public research university in Fairfax, Virginia. It was officially established in 1956 as a Northern Virginia branch of the University of Virginia and later became an independent institution in 1972. It has since grown to become the largest four-year public university in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The university is named a...
Wikipedia Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (Wash. U., or WUSTL) is a private research university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853, and named after George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all 50 U.S. states and more than 120 countries. Twenty-two Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Washington Univ...
Wikipedia Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The university is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and the French Alps. The university emphasizes active citizenship and public service in all of its disciplines...
The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a public research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. UMass Boston is the third most diverse university in the United States. While a majority of UMass Boston students are Massachusetts resid...
Scope of Project ===A list of participants (on both sides) is included in the linked document: Military leadership in the American Revolutionary War * Loyalist on Wikipedia Most of us think of the American Revolution just concentrated on what became the continental U.S., but the Caribbean-West Indies plays a major part! At the end of the war, quite a few Blacks who fought with the British were ...
Wikipedia Tulane University of Louisiana is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as a public medical college in 1834, the school grew into a comprehensive university in 1847 and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884. Tulane is a member of the Association of American Univ...
In Catholicism, an abbess (Latin abbatissa, feminine form of abbas, abbot) is the female superior of a community of nuns, which is often an abbey. In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Coptic and Anglican abbeys, the mode of election, position, rights, and authority of an abbess correspond generally with those of an abbot. Catholic Encyclopedia...
Taylor University is a private, interdenominational, evangelical Christian university in Upland, Indiana. Founded in 1846, it is one of the oldest evangelical Christian universities in the United States. The university is named after Bishop William Taylor (1821–1902). The university sits on an approximately 950 acres campus on the south side of Upland. It also preserves a 680 acres arboretum a...
The Darmstadt (see )was a Steel Screw Steamer built In Glasgow in 1890 by Fairfield Co.(Lim) Tonnage: 5,316g 3,405n Dimensions: 415.0 x 48.0 x 31. Under the command of B. Wilhelmi, she departed May 31 1899 from the port of Bremen, she arrived in Sydney, via Melbourne July 23 1899, (full route here: ) Full original passengers list in this project's documents . Sources: Passenger list on M...
This cemetery started out as Danville Cemetery in the 1840s. It is located in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky. Danville National Cemetery is located within the cemetery. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add people who were born, lived or died in Boyle County, Kentucky. Official Website History Boyle County was formed on February 15, 1842 from sections of Lincoln County and Mercer County. It is named for John Boyle , Congressman, Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and U.S. District Judge. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Marshall Harlan ,...
Wikipedia =Centre College is a private liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, a community of approximately 16,000 in Boyle County, about 35 miles south of Lexington, Kentucky. Centre is an undergraduate four-year institution with an enrollment of approximately 1,375 students. Centre was founded by Presbyterian leaders, with whom it maintains a loose affiliation, and officially char...
University of South Carolina (also referred to as USC, SC, South Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with seven satellite campuses. Its campus covers over 359 acres (145 ha) in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House. The University is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation for th...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was created on March 5, 1853, with territory partitioned from Wabasha County. It was named for James Madison Goodhue (1810–1852), who published the first newspaper in the territory, The Minnesota Pioneer. The county was originally settled exclusively by "Yankee" settlers, mean...
Scope of Project ===This project aims to identify notable film directors.== Overview ==A film director is a person who directs the actors and crew in the making of a film. They control a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors.== Responsibilities ==Film directors are responsible for overseeing creative aspects of a film under the film producer. They oft...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Taney County, Missouri. Official Website Taney County was officially organized on January 4, 1837, and named in honor of Roger Brooke Taney, the fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, best known for delivering the infamous majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford. Adjacent Counties Christian County Ozark County ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian Christian church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The church is headquartered in the United States in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has established congregations and built temples worldwide. According to the church, it h...
Wikipedia =Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of San Antonio in Bexar County, Texas. Find a Grave
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune). A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving more than 5,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops ...
New Jersey Governors This project collects the governors of New Jersey after declaring independence in 1776. Governors prior to 1776 should be added to Colonial Governors of New Jersey . 1st William Livingston 2nd William Patterson 3rd Richard Howell 4th Joseph Bloomfield (4th) Joseph Bloomfield 5th Aaron Ogden
Wheaton College is a private liberal arts college in Norton, Massachusetts. Wheaton was founded in 1834 as a female seminary. The trustees officially changed the name of the Wheaton Female Seminary to Wheaton College in 1912 after receiving a college charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It remained one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States unti...
The Rhodes Scholarship , named after Cecil John Rhodes , is an international postgraduate award for selected foreign students to study at the University of Oxford. It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship" by many public sources such as Time , Yale University Press, The McGill Reporter , and Associat...
Magdalen College, University of OxfordHigh Street, OxfordFounded William of Waynfleet, Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Winchester, 1458
Wikipedia =Colorado School of Mines, also referred to as "Mines" and "CSM", is a public teaching and research university in Golden, Colorado, devoted to engineering and applied science, with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's natural resources. CSM placed 75th in the 2015 US News & World Report "Best National Universities" ranking. Notable Alumni